Daylight

Reflections a few weeks before summer solstice

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For my lovely paid members: there’s a bit of a change to the regularity of seasonal posts this month due to a crazy one at my end (5 different trips for my family members this month, a 10th birthday and a major sort-and-tidy of our flat before it goes on the market!) This post is teeing up our summer solstice circle (Monday 16th June at 8pm) as we approach the lightest part of the year. I’ll send the Zoom link on the day - I can’t wait to gather with you.

10.30pm in the north east of Scotland. Mind-boggling volume of light

In Scotland last week, the sky was still full of light at 11pm and by 4am the daylight was fully realised. For the first two nights I barely slept, feeling like Al Pacino in Insomnia, as my body (so sensitive! what a gift/what a pain!) adjusted to the change.

I go through periods when I don’t sleep much, and sometimes it feels ok, I feel awake in every sense. A new idea is coursing through me, great activity is occurring in my mind - something taking shape or falling into place. There are moments - hours or days - when it feels like I don’t really need sleep, when the fact that everyone else in the house apart from me is resting well seems immaterial.

Then the crash comes, I am overwhelmed by exhaustion. And it almost feels like a relief, the admission that I am a body, that I cycle as everything does, that I have limits, that I would be a fool not to listen to them.